Trophy Dark is a collaborative storytelling game about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a place that doesn't want them there.
This is not a hopeful story of brave and daring adventurers that slay dragons and drag bags of gold back to town. This is a horror story of entitled pillagers meeting tragic ends.
The treasure-hunters are doomed, and they probably won't achieve their goal. Instead, they are very likely to die by the end of the game, and watching how they go out is part of the fun.
The tone of Trophy Dark is desperate and often tragic. You will likely encounter conflict or tension between treasure-hunters, where players are encouraged to backstab or betray their companions in pursuit of their goal.
This game will be R-rated. Your treasure-hunters are risk-takers willing to make dangerous choices. The game will likely be violent, terrifying, and include scenes of bodily horror and loss of self-control.
The game is highly collaborative and improvisational. Players have a lot of say over the world itself and can introduce story elements that no one—not even the GM—was expecting, and play moves between the fiction and the metagame frequently. The game runs best when everyone feels comfortable offering up their ideas.
